Tag Archives: poem about intersections.

Fjords, ravines and crevasses are hard enough to cross,but when it comes to intersections, I am at a loss.I excel at parallel parking and my merging is just fine,but when negotiating stop lights, I simply do not shine.

Perhaps it is the colors that I find distracting.There’s something about yellow that I find too exacting.Red is most definitive. I know I shouldn’t go.And green is also clearly meant as a sign to go.

But yellow’s indecisive. Should I go or should I stay?Should I linger or should I be upon my way?This solitary factor is what makes me balk.As a means of transportation, it is true I’d rather walk!!!!

The prompt words are color, parking, fjord and solitary. Here are the links:

Best if you view this one from my blog instead of the reader, as I’m sure the Reader will mess up the spacing and shape.

Crossroads

You and I are at that place where roads cross—
a new place made by the need for things
going in

d
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f
f
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r
e
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t
d i r e c t i o n s

to meet.

How lonely if all roads
veered off on their own,
solitary,
never coming to a junction.

It might have been thus, but for
a thousand small decisions
that led to this particular meeting,
here on this corner
of
your
road
and
my
road

Here in this location not uniquely either of us,
where we meet and mingle
and become one
for as long
as we both decide to stand
talking like neighbors,
each of us having veered halfway
away from private territory
to come to the spot
here in the middle
where we become two parts
of a center.